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A half century of banditry in Nigeria Since well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic On Violence called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”. “Bandits” is a conveniently …
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In this section /EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2019, citizens re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a second four-year term. Legislative elections were also held in 2019. Most independent observers agreed the elections were credible despite …
If I were to tell you that 2024 has already been a hugely significant year for West African food, then where would your mind immediately turn? Might it be Chishuru? The whirling firecracker of a West End restaurant where brilliant, Nigerian-born autodidact Adejoké Bakare (recently named Chef of the Year at the National Restaurant Awards) has already won a Michelin star for her expressive, …
Sade was born in Ibadan but her father's home is Ikere-Ekiti now called Ekiti State. Professor Adebisi Adu was her father. Her father was the first graduate of statistics in Nigeria. In the 80s, Sade Ad flew to the country after she received the sad news of her father's death to pay her last respect …
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